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General Knowledge this week. Guest compiler Artix has provided another of his very testing crosswords. If you prefer to work on the interactive version or download a pdf., click HERE. This link will take you to the crossword compiler website.

Across

    7  Milton’s pamphlet on press freedom (12)

    9  At Oxford, a member of a hall, as opposed to a collegian (4)

  10 French ecclesiastical title such as that given to Armand David, discoverer of the giant panda (4,4)

  11 First leader of independent Chile (1,7)

  12 Winner of the 1994 Derby ridden by Willie Carson (6)

  14 Irish author who took part in a swearing match at the British Museum in 1972 (5,5)

  15 London publisher of nearly all of Mark Twain’s works (6)

  17 A spittoon (8)

  19 Dried European pilchard (4,4)

  21 Wine merchant family, co-owners of Château Palmer (6)

  23 One of a pair of pantomime characters (4,6)

  24 A cliff over which a goat was driven in the atonement ritual for Yom Kippur (6)

  26 Hyracotherium, arguably the earliest known equid (8)

  27 One of two official languages of French Polynesia (8)

  29 Box-like device for dispensing playing-cards singly (4)

  30 Large earless ocean-going mammal (8,4)

Down

    1 Alpine pass on the Tyrolean frontier (7)

    2 A female bullfighter (6)

    3 An albuminised paper used in photography (4)

    4 Esperanto for the last month of the year (8)

    5 One guilty of buying or selling a benefice (8)

    6 Capital city with an average annual temperature below zero (4,5)

    8 Composition, in form like an oratorio, but performed as a drama (6,5)

    9 Orthorhombic lead sulphate (9)

  13 Pin-cushions embroidered by nuns (8,3)

  16 Orson Welles’ character in ‘The Third Man’ (5,4)

18/28 ’Yeti’ relic smuggled out of Asia by Jimmy Stewart (9,4)

  20 To remove the pollen-producing top part of a corn plant (8)

  21 Itchy’s nemesis in the show the Simpsons watch (8)

  22 100 GPa (7)

  25 A brain development disorder that impairs social interaction (6)

  28 See 18

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